By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWorldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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